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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.What do you all think? With how he played, he could put up his 1000th yard by Game7 or 8... But I think Game 10 is more reasonable and cautious....
What do you all think? With how he played, he could put up his 1000th yard by Game7 or 8... But I think Game 10 is more reasonable and cautious....
you certainly are an excitable sonofagun--but i love that
Moss for 183
wtf
i knew he was going to be full speed for game 1, but come on!!
wow
Hey... I could have said something silly and said game 6... but I figured game 10 was a safer bet....
I think it'll take the 14/15 games before he hits it. Just because of the way the Patriots Offense works.
I think it'll take the 14/15 games before he hits it. Just because of the way the Patriots Offense works.
It's just impossible to speculate with Belichick at the helm. Don't think for a minute the Pats will be a passing team all year. But the beautiful thing is...what a set of decoys we have "IF" we decide to run the ball more for any particular game!
the key is we MUST run the ball well all season in order to keep defenses on their heals! As long as we show we CAN run the ball successfully, the passing game is there for the taking.
Although this is true for ANY team, there is only ONE team with Tom Brady at quarterback and Randy Moss, Wes Welker, Donte Stallworth, Ben Watson, etc. for receivers!
.....OH............YEAH!!!
No one is thinking that they will be a passing team all year..
An interesting note is that the Pats had 37 runs and 28 passes today... 65 offensive plays...
I think it'll take the 14/15 games before he hits it. Just because of the way the Patriots Offense works.
An interesting note is that the Pats had 37 runs and 28 passes today... 65 offensive plays...
I believe that the 'way the Pats work' is actually at least partially an urban myth. They have never had a problem riding Brady hard instead of having a proper running game. And when Troy Brown was playing at his peak, he got a ton of passes thrown his way.
Corey Dillon was allowed to tear it up for as many yards as he wanted in 2004. They let him hit his contract goals in a meaningless season final game against the 49ers. They also let him back in a blow out against the Browns just to get 2 more yards and hit 100.
I think that the pats would be perfectly happy to ride Moss as far as they can this year.
I think moss will write his own ticket this year, and produce whatever yards he can.
Will they spread the ball and take what they are given? Sure. But I don't see it impeding Moss all that much. I think they have spread the ball in the past because they didn't have any go-to guys. When you have no run game and dwarf WRs, the natural thing to do is spread the ball and dink and dunk.
When you can get 30 yards per play regardless of coverage, that is the natural thing to do.
I'm just going by prior years, but as you point out, the offense can certainly evolve into something different based on the arsenal of weapons in comparison to prior years. Weis was certainly a pass-happy, spread offense type of OC during his time with New England (and the Jets), and this year we should get a fairly decent indicator of what Josh McD is.